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'''''Animal Armageddon''''' is a 2009 [[Speculative Documentary]] series that aired on ''[[Animal Planet]]''. Each episode (there are eight in total) focuses on a different extinction event in Earth's history (although there are two episodes about the end of the Cretaceous, because, you know, [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]]). The basic plot is that several creatures are shown before the extinction occurs, and that only a few of those shown will survive the extinction event. It also features cutaway scenes of paleontologists talking about the extinctions and apocalyptic quotes from [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]] and other sources.

* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Dinosaurs]]: Three of the episodes feature these great reptiles, with cameo appearances in the eighth episode.

* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Monkeys]]: ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Mammals|Gigantopithecus]]'' [[Anachronism Stew|226,000 years after they went extinct]].

* [[EverythingsEverything's Even Worse With Sharks]]: They survived the Cretaceous extinction event.

* [[EverythingsEverything's Squishier With Cephalopods]]: [[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Other Extinct Creatures|Nautiloids and ammonites]].

* [[Family -Unfriendly Death]]: Quite a number, but the ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Non Dinosaurian Reptiles|Lystrosaurus]]'' and young [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|hadrosaur]] stand out. In the first case, a [[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Non Dinosaurian Reptiles|gorgonopsian]] bites down on its neck, [[Camera Abuse|spurting blood on the camera]]. However, the gorgonopsian's jaw structure means that he can only shear off one piece of meat, leaving an enormous pool of blood. What's left of the lystrosaur is scavenged by the protomammal ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Non Dinosaurian Reptiles|Thrinaxodon]]''. As for the hadrosaur, it is attacked by two ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Troodon]]'' who fail to actually kill it. They are chased away by a ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]'', who slits the hadrosaur's throat and eats its foot.